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The comfortable house: North American suburban architecture, 1890-1930 by Alan Gowans; bibliography by Lamia Doumato is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Between 1890 and 1930, more houses were built in the United States than in all its previous history. <i>The Comfortable House</i> provides the first full treatment of this large body of domestic building. More than half of the book is devoted to classifying these houses into categories that can help guide preservationists, architectural historians and homeowners through the great profusion of "post Victorian" styles - Bungalow, Saltbox, Shingle, Tudor, Gothic, and the like.<br><br>Aided by over
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alan Gowans; bibliography by Lamia Doumato
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262570763
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Architecture, History, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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